What is Research?

December 8, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

DARE TO RESEARCH: Diversity Awards for Research Engagement

by JIM KUHN This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? The Harry Ransom Center’s “What Is Research” project ran from 2019-2020. The corresponding “DARE To Research” award was a one-time activity, funded at that time by the University of Texas at Austin Division of Diversity and… read more

ABOUT JIM KUHN

Jim Kuhn is Associate Director for the Library Division and Hobby Foundation Librarian at the Ransom Center. He has master's degrees in philosophy and library science, is the co-author of Academic Freedom: A Guide to the Literature (Greenwood Press, 2000), and has written about special collections librarianship and digital humanities. Jim also volunteers with the campus Victims Advocate Network (VAN), and serves on the board of Texas After Violence Project, an Austin-based community archive and documentary project cultivating deeper understandings of the impacts of state-sanctioned violence on individuals, families, and communities.

December 1, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching

The passion to push the paradigm

by DANIEL ARBINO This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? As a librarian at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin, I have been fortunate to carry values from my personal research journey and apply them to collection development… read more

DANIEL ARBINO
Daniel Arbino is the head of collection development at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin. He has published extensively in Caribbean and U.S. Latinx literature with an emphasis on post-colonial theory and critical race theory. His most recent publication is “When the Mirror Says Yes to Dark Beauty: Healing the Colonial Wound" in Inés Hernández-Ávila's "That's Tejana," Chiricú Journal (Fall 2019).

November 19, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching

75 YEARS HENCE: Arthur Miller adapts Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for radio

by JANINE BARCHAS This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? On the 18th of November in 1945, Arthur Miller’s radio adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice could be heard nationwide as part of a special Thanksgiving program. Listeners in New York heard it at 10 p.m.… read more

JANINE BARCHAS
Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Lost Books of Jane Austen, which led to an exhibition entitled “Austen in Austin” at the Ransom Center in the fall of 2019. She has also contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Lit Hub.